Kilobytes to Mebibytes conversion

What is a Kilobyte?

Kilobyte, $KB$, is a unit of digital information. Kilo is used as a unit prefix in metrics system. It represent a numerical value $10^3$ or $1,000$. List of SI prefix can be found on Wikipidia.

There are two common ways unit of information is represented. One is in decimal (base 10) form and the other is in power of 2 (binary). $Kilobyte$ is referring to the base 10 format, unlike $Kibibyte$ which is referring to base 2 format.

$$1\,Kilobyte => 1\, KB\,(shorthand form)$$

$$1\,KB = 1,000\,byte = 10^3 bytes$$

More examples can be found on Stanford's Kilobytes Megabytes Kilobytes Terabytes article

What is mebibytes?

A "mebibyte" (MiB) is a unit of digital information or computer storage. It's part of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 80000 binary prefixes, which were adopted to provide a standardized way of expressing large quantities.

One mebibyte is equal to:

1 MiB = 1024 kilobytes (KB) = 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes

To put it in perspective, here are some common units and their equivalents:

• Kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 bytes
• Megabyte (MB) = 1,024 kilobytes (or 1,048,576 bytes)
• Gibibyte (GiB) = 1024 mebibytes (MiB)
• Terabibyte (TiB) = 1024 gibibytes (GiB)

The use of "mebibyte" instead of "megabyte" avoids confusion with the decimal megabyte, which is equal to 1 million bytes. The binary prefixes, such as ki- and Mi-, help ensure that we're discussing storage in base 2 (binary) units, rather than base 10 (decimal).